Einstein Telescope

Einstein Telescope (ET) or Einstein Observatory, is a proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detector, currently under study by some institutions in the European Union. It will be able to test Einstein's general theory of relativity in strong field conditions and realize precision gravitational wave astronomy.

This article is about the gravitational wave detector. For the X-ray telescope, see Einstein Observatory. For the observatory building in Potsdam, see Einstein Tower.
Einstein Telescope
Named afterAlbert Einstein 
Telescope stylegravitational-wave observatory 
Websitewww.et-gw.eu

The ET is a design study project supported by the European Commission under the Framework Programme 7 (FP7). It concerns the study and the conceptual design for a new research infrastructure in the emergent field of gravitational-wave astronomy.

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